Analysis of a space rock that landed on a frozen Michigan lake revealed a rich array of extraterrestrial organic compounds. Learn how the meteorite might have been incorporated into life on Earth.

This revelation stems from research on a Martian meteorite analyzed by researchers ... the first geochemical markers of water in Mars’ oldest crust, indicating that the Red Planet might have ...

They're calling them "planetary embryos". Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system. These embryos, somewhere between ...

"We identified two large asteroids that show similar spectral features to angrites [some of the solar system's oldest meteorites, believed to have originated from planetesimals], suggesting these ...